Phillip Kruger is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and a core contributor to the Quarkus project. He leads the development of key features like the Quarkus Dev UI, MicroProfile GraphQL, and OpenAPI support, and is the creator of tools like mvnpm and the Chappie AI assistant in Quarkus. Phillip is passionate about developer experience, cloud-native Java, and building intelligent tooling that makes developers more productive.